A serious anti-Semitic incident took place at a railway station in Levallois-Perret, a suburb of Paris. On Sunday afternoon, two youths attacked a 15-year-old boy wearing a kippah. The attackers chased him near the station, ripped off his headphones and hit him in the face.
The boy’s family filed a complaint with Levallois police, citing a “deliberate attack with aggravated anti-Semitic motives.” The victim’s mother told French newspaper Le Parisien: “I think if he hadn’t been wearing a kippah, he wouldn’t have been attacked.”
The incident began when the boy was returning home to Paris after visiting his father, a restaurant worker in Levallois. He encountered two attackers while walking down the stairs of the Pont de Levallois metro station. “When she saw his eyes, she knew she had to take off her kippah,” her mother explained.
The attackers shouted, “Hey, Jew, come here!” The boy tried to flee towards the police station, but one of them caught him. They cornered him, demanded his phone and tore off his headphones.
The boy managed to escape and leave the police station, but the attackers chased him into the street. “He defended himself and hit one of them, he fell,” his mother continued. “But the attackers overpowered him.” “My son was screaming and they finally ran away,” she said. “He ran with bleeding lips and a pain in his head.”
Authorities are investigating the case, but police say it is not yet certain whether the attack was motivated by anti-Semitism. David-Xavier Weiss, deputy mayor of Levallois, spoke with the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retallo, who requested updated information on the child’s condition and assured that the investigation will be followed closely.
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